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Sunday, January 31, 2016

As this blog post publishes, I am in New Zealand, spending some long overdue time with relatives, celebrating my youngest cousin's wedding!

I want to share with you the card I made for the bride and groom, personalised with their initials. The wedding invitation was kraft and black, with arrows and hearts - a theme I carried over onto the card I made for them. It's an informal card, as the wedding is a relaxed affair (with a beach ceremony).

I've used the now-retired (boohoo) Black Glimmer Paper for the bow on the balloon, but all the current Stampin' Up! products used on this card are listed below. If you'd like to buy them for yourself, just click on one of the thumbnail images, and you will be taken to my online store.

Friday, January 29, 2016

Di has set our Just Add Ink challenge this week ... it is to "Just Add Nature" to your papercraft project.

I have a HUGE soft-spot for hummingbirds, so Stampin' Up!'s new Picture Perfect stamp set was a "must have" for me. I look forward to using lots of bright colour combinations with the 4-step stamps but have for today's card used more muted colours.

The awesome Going Places Designer Series Paper determined my colour scheme of Sahara Sand, Lost Lagoon, Basic Black and Very Vanilla. I've managed to incorporate four different pieces of the paper stack on my card; just love the designs!

After stamping the hummingbird, I masked it off, and stamped some grungy elements from Timeless Textures (this'll be my new favourite masculine stamp set, I'm sure) in the background. I added a little shimmer to the bird's Basic Black throat, using my clear Wink of Stella pen, but you might just have to take my word for that, as I couldn't capture it well in a photograph!

This is the first time I've inked up my Silhouettes & Script stamp set, for the sentiment. It is a "hostess set", able only to be earned for free with orders over $250 (the dollar value shown below is indicative of value only).

I had a lot of fun making this card (masculine cards are my favourite kind to make); I hope you like it, too!

Make sure you check out what the rest of the Just Add Ink Design Team have done with the "nature" brief. We'd love to have you play along with our challenge.

Friday, January 22, 2016

I had so many new products out on my desk, that I just couldn't decide what to use for my card. I ended up using four different stamp sets, and three dies ... this wouldn't qualify for the "see how cheap it is to make your own cards?!" award! Still, I think the result is rather sweet; I hope you enjoy what I came up with.

The sentiment die cut is from Lots of Labels, with the top and bottom trimmed to better suit the size of the stamped sentiment. The woodgrain backgrounds to the sweet little flowers were created using a stamp from Enjoy the Little Things - there are a few designs that punch out with the 1" square punch. Hopefully everything else is self-explanatory, but if you do have any questions, please just ask!

Make sure you check out the gorgeous creations the rest of the Design Team have come up with using Tina's sketch. We'd love to have you play along with us in this challenge.